Week 8, Day 2

This week you’ll be hearing from two Expert Guest Speakers, Dr. Elizabeth Sandel on Tuesday and Dr. Nicole Fisher on Thursday. You’ll also write for another newsletter, and three of you will complete your internship with a Work Showcase on Friday!

There are three tasks to do today:

  • Finish your newsletter synopses by 5pm PST. Because they are finishing their internship this week, Elena, Elliot, and Trevor will be writing two synopses; Will, Shelly, Caroline, and Cassidy will be writing one synopsis.

  • If you have not yet, write a thank you message to Dr. Goldin on this document.

  • Finish any preparation before Dr. Sandel’s talk at 11am today. Don’t forget to prepare (at least) one question for Dr. Sandel.

    • Read her PowerPoint presentation, which is an encapsulation of Chapter One of her book Shaken Brain.

    • Read Chapters Two and Three of Shaken Brain. We wouldn’t be assigning any additional chapters — though the entire book is terrific!

      • Doctor Sandel taught a course on concussions for the UC Davis Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) residents, using Shaken Brain as the textbook. Below are the questions she posed to the residents regarding each chapter of the book. While you don’t need to write out responses to each of these questions for both chapters, we thought that they would help guide your reading.

        1) What do you think are the main points in the chapter you reviewed? Do you agree with the author?

        2) What teaching points for patients do you think are most important?

        3) Highlight 1 or 2 references that you think are most interesting and helpful to you as a physiatrist. Discuss the important facts or viewpoints for these. (These can be studies or review articles.)

        4) How has reading the chapter changed your knowledge or perspectives on concussion?

This week:

  • Newsletter reminders

    • Try to choose from the July 23rd updates document if at all possible, as that contains the most recent sources. If you need to go back to the July 9 updates document, make sure to use the search functionality on the CA website to check if its been written about before.

    • Put your name and the link to what you’re writing about under its topic in the final doc as soon as you choose it

    • Try to get your newsletter synopses in the final document by 5pm PST on Tuesday

    • Grammarly doesn’t catch everything and is not always correct, but it is definitely your friend! Run your synopses through Grammarly before you leave it for us in the final document.

  • Continue working on your projects.

  • Reminders for those working in Squarespace:

    • Always make sure that you are not making changes to a live page.

    • Squarespace has no version control. If you make changes to a page and then save that change, you cannot get the original version back. This applies to editing from two computers as well; Squarespace also does not support two active editors, so make sure that only one person is editing a page at a time. Squarespace has even had trouble when someone else has the page selected but is not editing, it can be really finicky.